West Berkshire Council is reducing the depth of potholes it will fix – which means more of them will get filled. And it has done a deep dive into the district’s pit-ridden roads using state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The move comes as latest figures show a five-fold increase in the number of claims from road users who have experienced damage or injury as a result of incidents involving defects on the network. Claims have increased from 121 to to 527 – but 386 remain open. The council claims to repudiate around 90 per cent of claims made. In addition, the number of poth…